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The Chiapanese of Central America...tell us... that there was a Votan who was the grandson of the man who built the ark to save himself and his family from the Deluge; he was one of those who undertook to build the tower that should reach to heaven. The Lord ordered him to people America, “he came from the east.” He brought seven families with him. He had been preceded in America by two others, Igh and Imox. He built a great city in America called “Nachan,” City of the Serpents. The serpent that tempted Eve was Nahash, from his own race, which was named Chan, a serpent. (p. 313) The Lenni-Lenapi (Delaware) Indians preserve a legend of the decline of the Golden Age, when a priest, Powako, brings to earth worship an evil snake-god, Wakon. After which, there is much sadness, crime, and debauchery. (See p. 109) It is probable that the ships of the Atlanteans, when they returned after the tempest to look for their country, found the sea impassable from the masses of volcanic ash and pumice. They returned terrified to the shores of Europe; and the shock inflicted by the destruction of the world probably lead to one of those retrograde periods in the history of our race in which they lost all intercourse with the western continent. (p. 125) It was at this time that the archimandrites of Atlantis began the construction of some monuments that now indicate the wisdom of the ancients. Here and in other places, knowledge was sequestered in case of future cataclysms and disturbances. The great pyramids, it is thought, were constructed in the 4th Dynasty. It is remarkable that so few antique copper implements have been found (in Europe), although a knowl- edge of that metal must have been the preliminary stage in the manufacture of bronze. (Sir W.R. Wilde, from p. 238) The fact that there was in Europe, Asia, or Africa and no copper or tin age prior to the Bronze Age is conclusive testimony that the manufacture of bronze was an importation into those continents from some foreign country. (p. 267) The fact that in America alone of all the world is found the Copper Age, which must necessarily have preceded the Bronze Age, teaches us to look westward of Europe and beyond the sea for that foreign country. (p. 267) The Adites are remembered by the Arabians as a great and civilized race. “They were depicted as men of gigantic stature; their strength was equal to their size, and they easily moved great blocks of stone. (from Ancient History of the East, Vol 2, p. 269, Lenormant and Chevalier) 198 Appendix B: Book Abstracts e Nata of the Aztecs City of the Serpents Coming of the Snake Cult Retrograde Development of Humanity The Copper Age Gigantic Men Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation